Monday Miscellanea

This Week In London’s History

Monday – 28 October 1903: Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh is born in Hampstead. He would become a successful writer.

Tuesday – 29 October 1986: The M25 ‘London orbital’ motorway is officially opened by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, at a ceremony at the last section to be completed (junctions 22 and 23 in Hertfordshire).

Wednesday – 30 October 1883: A group known as the 'Fenian Dynamiters' detonates a bomb on the Metropolitan Railway, injuring 62 people.

Thursday – 31 October 1795: Another literary anniversary: John Keats is thought to have been born in Moorgate. He would become a noted poet.